A timeline of past efforts towards the design of a central repository of citations leveraging Wikidata

2017
2016
  • WikiCite 2016, Berlin
    • Property P2860 (cites) is created
  • Wikimedia Developer Summit, San Francisco
2015
2014
2012
Pre-Wikidata efforts
  • German Wikipedia starts using the BibISBN template to transclude bibliographic records in 2010. (example)
2011
  • The concept of WikiCite is proposed at the Digital Public Library of America Plenary.

  • The design for the WikiCite proposal was partially based on WikiPapers
  • The phrase "wiki papers" was first used by Wolfgang Pauli on a private mailing list in 2007.
2006
2005
2004